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Seal v. t. (past & past part. sealed; pres. part. sealing)

To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed. "And with my hand I seal my true heart's love."

To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.

To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.

Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret. "Seal up your lips, and give no words but "mum"."

To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.

To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.

Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife. (Utah, U.S.) "If a man once married desires a second helpmate... she is sealed to him under the solemn sanction of the church."

Seal v. i. To affix one's seal, or a seal. (Obs.) "I will seal unto this bond."

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"Sealed" Quotes from Famous Books

... his room, and for some time she heard him moving about. Then she heard the scraping of his chair as he drew it to his desk, and vaguely wondered. When he came down he had a sealed envelope in ...

— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... door upon his stuffy little sanctum whose shelves are piled with a heterogeneous confusion of tubes and bottles, books and instruments, specimens of foodstuffs under the process of analysis for values, and carefully-sealed watch-glasses containing choice cultures of deadly microbes in bouillon, before he leads his way down the long corridor, where narrow pallets, upon which sick men and boys are stretched, range along the walls upon either hand, and the air is heavy with the taint of suppurating ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... from her—she, too, was proud,—and there might have been a different story to tell. But with the foolish self-consciousness of lovers, each failed the other in the great moment that would have sealed their destinies. ...

— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne

... really necessary. But this little would lead no one to excess. The men who drink to excess are those who patronize bars with other traveling men, and who drink alone. The temptation is great. Every hotel has its bar; all introductions and intimacies have to be sealed with a drink, and the man who does not feel bright, or fancies he does not, has a row of bright bottles beckoning to him to "brace up" with a glass ...

— A Man of Samples • Wm. H. Maher

... of the once green and fertile spot. Not only was it covered with deep snow, but over the spring there was formed a singular dome of ice. This dome was a subject of continual astonishment to every one at Ungava. It had commenced to rise soon after the first hard frosts had sealed up the little fountain from the open air. As time passed by, the covering became thick ice, and was bulged gradually up above the surrounding waste, until it reached an elevation of not much less than twelve or thirteen feet. Inside ...

— Ungava • R.M. Ballantyne

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